dave1949
Super Star Member
Thank you, Sir.
I have no idea where Steve's delusion will lead in the future. His obsession with getting a Nobel prize in Stockholm is all-consuming. I checked the nominees for the 2014 Ig Nobel Prize. I didn't see anyone named Steve on the list.
The 2014 Ig Nobel Prizes will be awarded on Thursday night, September 18th, 2014 at the 24th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard's Sanders Theatre. The ceremony will be broadcast live.
Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts is a long ways from Stockholm. If Steve wins, we can be charitable by putting him on a plane at Logan Airport in Boston, then ask the pilot to fly in circles for about seven hours before landing back at Logan. If we hire a limo with dark tinted glass to take him to Harvard, I think we can fool him. He wants to believe; that is our best tool in maintaining his delusions.
The last Ig Noble awarded in Economics was in 2010. Here are two examples of prize winning efforts:
ECONOMICS 2010: The executives and directors of Goldman Sachs, AIG, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, and Magnetar for creating and promoting new ways to invest money — ways that maximize financial gain and minimize financial risk for the world economy, or for a portion thereof.
ECONOMICS 2005: Gauri Nanda of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for inventing an alarm clock that runs away and hides, repeatedly, thus ensuring that people DO get out of bed, and thus theoretically adding many productive hours to the workday.
Is Wagtail claiming the pallet formations resemble a Canada Duck? 
